BY CLEO LI-SCHWARTZ This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Strangers When We Meet (朝云暮雨), first released [ … ]
The languages that make my family
BY JING-JING HU *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. As [ … ]
NüProfile: Translator Sarah Ye ties Shakespeare to Classical Chinese poetry
BY HEATHER IRVINE Elizabethan houses and town halls may seem slightly out of place in China. But in 2017, construction began on a replica of a medieval English town in [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #124: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: A Conversation with Award-winning Author Barbara Demick
This week, NüVoices editor and board member Jessie Lau speaks to returning guest, award-winning author and journalist Barbara Demick, about her new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China [ … ]
Meng Han Hsieh’s film ‘The Test’ powerfully portrays Britain’s alienating naturalisation process
BY ANGEL SUN In The Test, I-Ling, a young East Asian woman, arrives to take the “Life in the United Kingdom Test,” which is required to become a British citizen, [ … ]
Carrying Chinese-ness Across South America
BY TAPPY LUNG *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. I’m [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #123: Grace Shao, China’s AI boom and the myth of US-China race
This week, Tiffany Ap speaks with Grace Shao on the causes and development of AI in China. In this episode, Grace Shao walks us through the divergent approaches to AI [ … ]
Meet the Hong Kong migrant mums swapping the workplace for home life
BY ANGEL SUN *This feature was originally published in Initium Media on 26 July 2025. It has been edited and translated from Chinese into English by the author. Illustration: Angel [ … ]
Overseas Chinese feminists call on Beijing to protect women from digital violence
BY KELLY YU Overseas Chinese feminists in London are calling on the Beijing government to strengthen protections against digital violence and the sexual exploitation of women, in the wake of [ … ]
How a health scare turned a ‘boring as hell’ finance worker into a feminist comedian
BY MIYA YONGER SHEN It’s been three years since Kate Hu left her job as a quantitative analyst in finance to pursue stand-up comedy, a monumental career change that her [ … ]
Film Review: The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光)
BY CLEO LI-SCHWARTZ This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Korean-Chinese director Lu Zhang’s 2023 film The [ … ]
Living in London, Belonging Nowhere
BY Pi3 *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. I still [ … ]
Homecoming at the Cemetery
BY TARA SUN VANACORE *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. [ … ]
I work in US policy – being Chinese is now an occupational hazard
BY FRANCES ZHU HISGEN *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘Chinese And Any Other Asian’ by Anna Sulan Masing
BY ANNA SULAN MASING Read an exclusive excerpt from “Chinese And Any Other Asian” by Anna Sulan Masing. Photo credit: Patricia Niven. Gender I became acutely aware about my racialised place [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #Special: Amanda Hsiao, on Trump 2.0 and Beijing’s new tactics
In the past few months, the US-China relationship has been volatile with tensions. From trade tariffs to extra screening on Chinese international students, the US-China relations in Trump 2.0 seem [ … ]
Essay by a Manchu girl in Tibet: Finding My Chinese Identity
Note: This essay is by a contributor based in China who has been anonymised due to safety concerns. The piece has been translated from Mandarin into English (see original below) [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘I Am Not a Tourist’ by Daisy J. Hung
Read an exclusive excerpt from “I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese” by Daisy J. Hung (Published by HQ, HarperCollins), out now: Portraits, plaques and memorials will [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #122: Sonalie Figueiras, Demystifying Eco-Living and Sustainability Myths
This week, NüVoices host Tiffany Ap gets in the weeds on how to live a more eco-conscious life with Sonalie Figueiras, the founder of Green Queen and Asia’s leading sustainability [ … ]
A trip to the supermarket
BY N. J. Chan *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. Photo: [ … ]